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Oct312013
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Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 4:04PM 
I'm always minutely perplexed when I meet someone who likes to fake accents as an ice breaker. It's not limited to British accents, of course, but British accents seem to be the most popular choice. I suppose the Eastern European accents might be harder to maintain and the Irish brogue is just too hard to nail.
More fascinating is that I've never seen anyone call someone out for it. Everyone sort of pretends it's not happening.
Reader Comments (9)
Love the way you drew the British group of people :D
Don't forget to extend some love for British people who live overseas but try to hold onto their original accent. They quickly become more and more of a caricature until visitors from their own country will presume that the person is taking the mickey.
I had to google "taking the mickey". :)
The woman's face at the end sums up every English person's reaction to being called British
Is the hay ree poh rah something you've actually heard been said or was it just made up?
Either way I lost it.
When I was a teacher, I used to get my more reluctant readers to read out loud by letting them read Harry Potter with an accent. One of my favorite students used to say, "Hayyy Ree Paww Taaaah" a few times first to get into character. I remembered that when it was time to draw this comic.
Harry Potter in school.
10/10 teaching.
So, English accent? Britain encompasses Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, all of which are veeerry different accents. Does get a bit annoying hearing it all lumped in to one all the time, when the accent people are talking about is a London one.
As a hint, to do a Welsh accent just attempt to do an Indian accent, if you do that accent badly it'll sound pretty Welsh, and the other way round. Weird how they're kind of similar.
well what the bluh-ee 'ell is step foe then?!
(how was that?)
ah man, I hope that "hay ree poh tah" doesn't just pop into my head at inappropriate times and I have to like hold back laughter in the middle of a funeral or something